I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in... - Walt Whitman

"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"

"Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)"

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."